I know of no safe depository of the ultimate power of the society but …

Thomas Jefferson
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I know of no safe depository of the ultimate power of the society but the people themselves. ✨ Letter to William Charles Jarvis, 28 Sept. 1820
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I know of no safe depository of the ultimate power of the society but the people themselves. ✨ Letter to William Charles Jarvis, 28 Sept. 1820

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